Sha** a soft future: patterning liquid metals

J Ma, F Krisnadi, MH Vong, M Kong… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights the unique techniques for patterning liquid metals containing gallium
(eg, eutectic gallium indium, EGaIn). These techniques are enabled by two unique attributes …

Soft‐matter engineering for soft robotics

C Majidi - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since its inception, the field of robotics has aimed to create machines that mimic the
extraordinary capabilities of the human body. From as early as the 1940s, this has included …

Powerful, soft combustion actuators for insect-scale robots

CA Aubin, RH Heisser, O Peretz, J Timko, J Lo… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Insects perform feats of strength and endurance that belie their small stature. Insect-scale
robots—although subject to the same scaling laws—demonstrate reduced performance …

Energy harvesting and storage with soft and stretchable materials

V Vallem, Y Sargolzaeiaval, M Ozturk… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights various modes of converting ambient sources of energy into electricity
using soft and stretchable materials. These mechanical properties are useful for emerging …

Wearable antennas: A review of materials, structures, and innovative features for autonomous communication and sensing

KN Paracha, SKA Rahim, PJ Soh, M Khalily - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable antennas have gained much attention in recent years due to their attractive
features and possibilities in enabling lightweight, flexible, low cost, and portable wireless …

A highly stretchable and self‐healing supramolecular elastomer based on sliding crosslinks and hydrogen bonds

R Du, Z Xu, C Zhu, Y Jiang, H Yan… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The long application life and stable performance of stretchable electronics have been
putting forward requirements for both higher mechanical properties and better self‐healing …

How to tailor flexible silicone elastomers with mechanical integrity: A tutorial review

P Mazurek, S Vudayagiri, AL Skov - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The tutorial aims to equip the beginners in silicone research with the knowledge to formulate
recipes and process elastomer networks, targeting specific properties related to soft …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …

Map** the mechanical and electrical properties of commercial silicone elastomer formulations for stretchable transducers

J Vaicekauskaite, P Mazurek, S Vudayagiri… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Elastomers for fabricating soft and stretchable transducers primarily require high elongation
at break, high dielectric permittivity, high breakdown strength and low leakage current …

Highly recyclable and tough elastic vitrimers from a defined polydimethylsiloxane network

J Luo, X Zhao, H Ju, X Chen, S Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite intensive research on sustainable elastomers, achieving elastic vitrimers with
significantly improved mechanical properties and recyclability remains a scientific challenge …